Peruvian Wins Nobel Prize

What you come to realize is that the prize means nothing; it is simply an ward the elites give to themselves.  

The fact that GANDHI NEVER WON ONE (and war criminals like Kissinger did) is ALL YOU NEED to KNOW!! 

"Peruvian author gets Nobel Prize for works on politics, tyranny" by Hillel Italie, Associated Press  |  October 8, 2010

NEW YORK — Like such recent Nobel laureates as Herta Mueller and Doris Lessing, Mario Vargas Llosa, the newest recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a dissenter from communism, a former party member who ran for president of Peru in 1990 as an advocate of privatization and remains a critic of leftist leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.

The author of more than 30 novels, plays, and works of nonfiction, he is known for his expansive language, his alertness to the profound and the profane, and his fierce and dark disdain for tyranny.  
I find he and I have much in common.

“Vargas Llosa’s style is a kind of baroque style — long sentences, complicated sentences. The writer in English closest to his style is William Faulkner, who influenced so many of the Latin American writers,’’ says Edith Grossman, the English-language translator for novels by Vargas Llosa and South American Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  

Actually, I'm kind of direct; however, I read Faulkner in college.  Good stuff, but I feel sorry for the kids trying to understand it.  Better give the right answers to the official interpretation or watch out!

“He has a great range of styles and a great range of subjects, from comedies of manners to really profound political analysis. He is thought of as very political, but ‘The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto’ [‘Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto’] is immensely funny and I don’t think there’s a political word in it.’’  

Thank you!

In 1995, Vargas Llosa won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honor in Spanish. He is the first South American recipient of the $1.5 million Nobel Prize in literature since Colombia’s Garcia Marquez in 1982, and the first Spanish-language writer to get the award since Mexico’s Octavio Paz in 1990.

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